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John 14:1-6
Stephen Caswell © 2003
Introduction
Today we have come here to remember Ernie Heath.
So suddenly, we have been separated from him.
/Will we see him again?
Is there an afterlife?
Does the Bible offer us hope?
/Yes it does!
In John 14:1-6, Jesus shares 3 points that comfort us.
*/Jesus gives perfect peace, Jesus has prepared a place,/* and finally, */Jesus is the pathway home./*
/Firstly,/ Jesus Gives Perfect Peace
*John 14:1* /Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me./
Jesus told the disciples not to be troubled.
/Why were the disciple’s hearts troubled?/
Because Jesus had just told them that He was going to die.
*/Death, separation/* and */uncertainty/* will always cause us anxiety.
The disciples loved Jesus.
They had followed Him for three years and didn't want Him to leave them now.
This is why their hearts were troubled.
Jesus told them not to be troubled in their hearts and shared with them His peace.
Faith in God the Father and God the Son would bring back peace to their troubled hearts.
Jesus and His Father have a wonderful plan to bring all God's children home.
In times like these */Jesus gives us perfect peace./*
Moody More Alive
Realizing that he would soon be gone from this world, Moody said to a friend, Someday you will read in the papers that D. L. Moody of Northfield is dead.
Don’t you believe a word of it.
At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now.
I shall have gone higher, that is all - out of this old clay tent into a house that is immortal, a body that sin cannot touch, that sin cannot taint, a body fashioned into His glorious body.
I was born in the flesh in 1837; I was born of the Spirit in 1856.
That which is born of the flesh may die; that which is born of the Spirit will live forever.
/Secondly,/ Jesus Has Prepared A Place
*John 14:2* /In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you.
I go to prepare a place for you/.
Moody Saw Heaven
A few hours before entering the Homeland, Dwight L. Moody caught a glimpse of the glory awaiting him.
Awakening from a sleep, he said, Earth recedes, Heaven opens before me.
If this is death, it is sweet!
There is no valley here.
God is calling me, and I must go.
His son who was standing by his bedside said, No, no, father, you are dreaming.
No, said Mr. Moody, I am not dreaming: I have been within the gates: I have seen the children’s faces.
A short time elapsed and then, following what seemed to the family to be the death struggle he spoke again: This is my triumph; this my coronation day!
It is glorious!
In God's house there are many mansions.
Jesus has gone and prepared a special place for us.
The word mansion means a dwelling place.
Heaven is large and able to accommodate many people.
It is God's desire that everyone should live there.
He invites all men to come.
The heavenly Jerusalem is some 1500 miles square.
God doesn't want any to perish.
There is plenty of room for all.
/Will everyone go to heaven then?/
No. Sadly this won't happen.
Only members of God's family are welcome in the Father's house.
*Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.*
Born Into God’s Family
In our home at 147 Mount Sylvia Road all of my children are welcome there.
They live with me because they are my family.
/You might ask; how can I join your family?
There’s/ only one way.
You have to be born into it.
The same is true of God's home.
Only His children will live there.
God doesn't have grand children.
Just because your parents are or grandparents are Christians doesn't make you one.
For migrants to become Australian citizens they have to choose to do so.
To become one of God's children we have to be born into His family.
It’s your choice!
Ernie Heath was born into the Heath family about 75 years ago.
This gave Ern physical life.
It was when he believed that Jesus Christ had died for his sins that he was born again.
He then received Christ as His personal Lord and Savior.
In fact Ernie and Yo gave a public testimony of their faith here at Tent Hill Baptist Church about 9 years ago.
Now Ernie has gone home to be with his Heavenly Father.
He is living in the mansion Christ prepared for him.
/Have you been born again into God's family?
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/Thirdly,/ Jesus Is The Pathway Home
*14:3-4* /And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
And where I go you know, and the way you know./
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Jesus told them the way to the Father's home when He lived with them.
Unfortunately the disciples hadn't understood all that Jesus had taught them.
They didn't know that He was going back to heaven.
So Thomas asked for the directions on how to get to our heavenly home.
*John 14:5* /Thomas said to Him, Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?
/Jesus reply is simple yet profound.*
John 14:6*/ Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through Me. /Jesus said 3 important things.
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The Way/
*/Firstly,/* /Jesus is the Way./
A traveler engaged a guide to take him across a desert area.
When the two men arrived at the edge of the desert, the traveler, looking ahead, saw before him trackless sands without a single footprint, path, or marker of any kind.
Turning to his guide, he asked in a tone of surprise, Where is the road?
*With a reproving glance, the guide replied, /I// am the road./*
So, too, Jesus is our way through unfamiliar territory.
*/In fact,/* Jesus said that He was the only way to the Father./
Isn't that being narrow minded?
/It is; but it is also the truth.
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